http://www.webstandards.org Working together for standards Mon, 05 May 2008 16:06:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This course is aimed at experienced Web developers and designers who are interested in learning to develop content for mobile Web access using W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. Participants will have access to lectures and assignments providing hands-on practical experience with using W3C's mobile Web Best Practices. They will have direct access to ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/05/04/w3c-offers-online-training-course-mobile-best-practices/ The W3C announced today that WCAG2 is now a candidate recommendation and is likely to be "live" by the end of the year. The W3C says Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/04/30/wcag-2-now-candidate-recommendation/ The W3C's Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group have just announced a new suite of tests for mobile devices. In the spirit of the Acid tests, the test results are returned in an easily grokable visual manner—the green squares are desirable, the red squares mean a feature isn't yet supported. The ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/04/16/mobiletestsuite/ The third CSS Naked Day will be held on Wednesday, April 9. This annual event is intended to promote the POSH portion of the Web Standards trinity by having designers and developers remove all CSS from a Web site -- thereby stripping it of its design and thus underscoring the ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/04/07/showing-off-my-body-and-loving-it/ Just over a month ago, WaSP announced the Acid3 Browser Test. At the time, we knew that some of the browser development teams were aggressively working to pass the test. What we didn't know was how long it would take for a browser to pass the test. "When we released ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/04/07/acid3-passed-in-23-days/ Following on the heels of the highly successful Street Team bookmark initiative, The Web Standards Project is pleased to announce a new opportunity for you to spread the good word of Web standards to the people around you. It occurs to us that books don't build crappy Web sites; people ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/04/01/new-initiative-in-hyper-localized-social-tagging/ The Web Standards Project Dreamweaver Task Force was created in 2001 to accomplish two tasks: to work with Macromedia (later Adobe) to improve the standards compliance and accessibility of Web pages produced with Dreamweaver and to communicate effectively within the online Dreamweaver community. Having successfully completed its initial goals, WaSP announces ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/03/10/announcing-the-adobe-task-force/ All SXSW Interactive attendees are welcome to attend WaSP's annual public meeting which will be held tomorrow, Monday, March 10. The session runs from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Central Daylight Time) and will be held in room 19AB (Level 4). Everyone is welcome to join our Meebo chat as ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/03/09/annual-public-wasp-meeting-at-sxsw/ Warning! This Book Could Be Hazardous to the Web! How many outdated web design and development books are lurking in your local library, school or college, waiting to corrupt an innocent mind? Want to warn the unsuspecting of these hazardous materials while encouraging librarians to update their shelves? Join ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/03/08/street-team-make-your-mark/ Microsoft released its first beta of Internet Explorer 8 today. They have also relaunched the Internet Explorer Developer Center and submitted a ton of tests in their CSS 2.1 test suite to the W3C for use in their test suite. Chris Wilson's talk introducing IE8 (and passing ACID2 live) should be ... http://www.webstandards.org/2008/03/05/microsoft-releases-the-first-ie8-beta/